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" I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic. "
Phil Collins
Well
Go
Never
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" I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet. "
Phil Collins
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Just
Living
" I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. "
Phil Collins
Bread
Me
Hot
" That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime. "
Phil Collins
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Know
Never
" On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say. "
Phil Collins
Work
Day
Down
" I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me. "
Phil Collins
Talk
Past
Me
" I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. "
Phil Collins
People
Successful
Hate
" Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. "
Phil Collins
Performance
Think
People
" As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour. "
Phil Collins
Things
Start
Promotion
" I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me. "
Phil Collins
Trying
Interesting
Me
" You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment. "
Phil Collins
You
Time
Disappointment
" I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover from the '50s and '60s, which may have been an influence on me. "
Phil Collins
Father
Young
Doing
" I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. "
Phil Collins
Brother
New
Writing
" Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us. "
Phil Collins
Australia
Time
I Can
" Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting. "
Phil Collins
Wife
Tired
Three
" When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. "
Phil Collins
Food
Because
Travel
" All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that. "
Phil Collins
Playing
Luck
Living
" I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair. "
Phil Collins
Someone
Said
Now
" I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. "
Phil Collins
Bit
Who
Singer
" I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. "
Phil Collins
Early
Much
First
" I don't really listen to music. "
Phil Collins
Music
Really
Listen
" To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time. "
Phil Collins
Honest
Moment
Me
" The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. "
Phil Collins
Detail
London
Day
" If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination. "
Phil Collins
Interesting
Touch
Me
" It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. "
Phil Collins
Proud
English
Drummer
" Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that. "
Phil Collins
Story
You
Thought
" That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.' "
Phil Collins
Air
Going
He
" I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt. "
Phil Collins
Belt
Thinking
Bullet
" You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing. "
Phil Collins
You
Fun
Dogs
" And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer. "
Phil Collins
You
Never
Know
" Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. "
Phil Collins
Beyond
Music
Yours